Supply Chain Operations -- Coordination of Inventory and Shipment Consolidation Decisions: A Review of Premises, Models, and Justification -- A Near-Optimal Order-Based Inventory Allocation Rule in an Assemble-To-Order System and its Applications to Resource Allocation Problems -- Improving Supply Chain Performance through Buyer Collaboration -- The Impact of New Supply Chain Management Practices on the Decision Tools Required by the Trucking Industry -- Managing the Supply-Side Risks in Supply Chains: Taxonomies, Processes, and Examples of Decision-Making Modeling -- Demand Propagation in ERP Integrated Assembly Supply Chains: Theoretical Models and Empirical Results -- Electronic Commerce and Markets -- Bridging the Trust Gap in Electronic Markets: A Strategic Framework for Empirical Study -- Strategies and Challenges of Internet Grocery Retailing Logistics -- Enabling Supply-Chain Coordination: Leveraging Legacy Sources for Rich Decision Support -- Collaboration Technologies for Supporting E-Supply Chain Management -- From Research to Practice -- The State of Practice in Supply-Chain Management: A Research Perspective -- Myths and Reality of Supply Chain Management: Implications for Industry-University Relationships -- Supply Chain Management: Interlinking Multiple Research Streams -- PROFIT: Decision Technology for Supply Chain Management at IBM Microelectronics Division -- Case Studies: Supply Chain Optimization Models in a Chemical Company.

This volume contains a broad specturm of both research and applications in both supply chain management and e-business. Several chapters are written by practitioners at leading corporations. It contains a variety of perspectives from researchers and pracitioners in disciplines beyond pure operations management or operations research. Audience This volume is suitable for researchers in supply chain management, e-business, and applied operations research as well as graduate students in these and other related disciplines. It would also be of interest to industry practitioners in supply chain management and e-business with interests in operations managements and operations research.